John Armstrong had a lengthy presentation at the Lancer "November in Dallas" conference on Friday night, November 20. He had originally been scheduled to make a shorter version of the same presentation at the COPA conference on Sunday, November 22, but for reasons not pertinent here, cancelled it.

The following, then, is based on a presentation I did not see. Mr. Armstrong was kind enough to give me a copy of his speech, but there are several caveats to its appearance here. Most important, perhaps, is that I am shortening it considerably, with John's full knowledge and consent.

It is also important to understand that it is published here without the many slides and other documentation that accompanied the Lancer presentation.

The complete text is due to appear in an upcoming issue of Fair Play --- probably the next one. I expect to work with John in adapting it to this forum, and hope to have at least some of the graphics that go with it.

Any mistakes that appear in the version that follows are mine. --- JK

Oswald: The Evidence Not Shown
to the Warren Commission/HSCA

FBI Suppression, Manipulation, and
Handling of Evidence

by John Armstrong

edited by John Kelin

"In 1996, one of the FBl's top scientists, Frederick Whitehurst, disclosed
that the FBI crime lab had fabricated evidence in the World Trade Center
and Oklahoma City bombings. Is anyone surprised? They were fabricating
evidence in the Kennedy assassination 35 years ago and tonight I'll show
you a few examples how this was done.

"On the evening of the assassination FBI director Hoover told Lyndon
Johnson 'we have up here the tape recording and the photograph of the man
who was at the Soviet embassy using Oswald's name. That picture and tape
recording do not correspond to this man's voice, nor to his appearance. In
other words, it appears that there is a second person who was at the
Soviet embassy down there.'

"A second person? Lyndon Johnson understood. Johnson's aide Cliff Carter
ordered Dallas District Attorney Henry Wade 'not to allege a
conspiracy,' and then ordered Dallas Police Chief Jesse Curry to turn over
all evidence to the FBI. Curry told the Warren Commission
'about midnight Friday night --- November 22 --- we agreed to let the FBI have all the evidence and they said they would have an agent stand by and when they were finished with it, return it to us.' The evidence consisted of
Oswald's possessions taken by Dallas Police from the Paine house and
1026 N. Beckley."

Armstrong said that FBI document specialist James Cadigan received Oswald's possessions in Washington, DC, the evening of November 23. Cadigan's original deposition refers to "four or five hundred" items, although references to November 23 were deleted from his published Warren Commission testimony.

Officially, the FBI did not enter the JFK case until November 26. It was not officially recorded that the FBI had Oswald's possessions in Washington for three days before returning them to Dallas.

After they were returned to the Dallas P.D., Oswald's possessions were photographed on five rolls film. "Each of the 455 items were numbered, photographed, and inventoried," Armstrong said. "When the FBI took over the investigation on November 26, the Dallas Police turned over their evidence and undeveloped film. They requested the FBI process and return three prints of each item."

But the FBI did not return any of the photos to the Dallas Police, nor any of the original five rolls of film. Instead, Armstrong said, they altered the police film. "The first roll contained negatives #1 through #163. The second, third, and fourth rolls of film disappeared entirely. The fifth roll contained negatives #361 to #451. The FBI altered negatives on roll #1 and roll #5. They then copied roll #1 and roll #5 and returned the copies to the Dallas Police on December 1st."

Chief Curry noticed the missing negatives and notified the FBI the next day. "The missing negatives were blamed on the Dallas Police
photographer. They said he used 'faulty technique' when
photographing Oswald's possessions. If there was any 'faulty technique' it
could be seen, frame by frame, on the original film; but all 5 original rolls
disappeared while in FBI custody.

"All that remains are the two copied rolls, available from the Dallas
Archives. These rolls show us which frames the FBI removed and which
frames they altered. The first roll of film stops at negative 163. Negatives 168, 169 and 175 are Oswald's w-2 tax forms, which are
listed on [an] FBI inventory form [and] are supposed to follow the
negatives shown on [the] film."

The original Dallas Police film, which allegedly contained negatives of the w-2 forms, was cut and a blank strip of film spliced in, Armstrong said. "Officers Rose, Stowell and
Adamcik followed police procedure by initialing each item
to establish a chain of evidence. Each item was then listed on their
handwritten inventory. But there are no Dallas Police initals on the w-2
forms found in the National Archives. None were listed on the handwritten
or typed Dallas Police inventories. None are
among the items photographed on the floor of the Dallas Police station.
These w-2 forms, which appear to have been typed with the same
typewriter, are listed on the FBI/Dallas Police inventory only after
Oswald's possessions were returned from Washington. Each w-2 form has
the initials of FBI laboratory technician Robert Frazier. The
fact is that there is no evidence that any of these w-2 forms were found
at Ruth Paine's house."

* * *

"A small German camera was found and initialed by Gus Rose," Armstrong said. "It was listed
on the handwritten inventory, the typed inventory and the
Dallas Police/FBI inventory. The chain of custody for the Minox camera
from the Paine's garage to the FBI is complete. The camera and 8 other
items were photographed by the Dallas Police and the undeveloped film
given to the FBI. But by the time copies of the film were returned to the
Dallas Police, the negative had been altered."

The alteration removed the Minox camera from the image, Armstrong said. "It would be difficult to explain why a common laborer possessed an expensive Minox spy camera," and indeed there were rumors at the time that Oswald was an FBI informant. "Anything that hinted of a connection between Oswald and the intelligence community was suppressed." At the request of the FBI, the police property invoice was changed from "Minox camera" to "Minox light meter." The FBI changed their inventory as well, and "photographed a light meter and returned the photograph
to the Dallas Police. They never did explain the numerous rolls of Minox
film listed on their inventory," Armstrong said.

"Two months later the FBI allegedly picked up a Minox camera from Michael Paine, described as rusty and inoperable. They then told the public that the Minox camera belonged to Michael Paine. Michael Paine said in a television interview that the camera had been returned to him by the FBI in the summer of 1964. He then said that his apartment was burglarized and all of his camera equipment, including his Minox camera, was lost. But in the National Archives, there is a Minox camera in mint condition --- the one found by Gus Rose in the Paine garage."

* * *

"The last example of evidence alteration I will discuss is the most
difficult to follow. It involves the two Oswald wallets found in Oak Cliff
and is detailed in Dale Myers' new book With Malice.

"A wallet was found at
the scene of the Tippit murder by Dallas Police which contained
identification for Lee Harvey Oswald and Alik Hidell. Twenty
minutes later a different wallet was taken from Oswald's left rear pocket
by Detective Paul Bentley. This wallet, the 'arrest wallet,'
also contained identification for Lee Harvey Oswald and Alik Hidell. Both
wallets remained in custody of the Dallas Police from November 22nd
until November 26th."

Bentley turned over Oswalds "arrest wallet" to Lt. Baker. The wallet and
contents were kept in the property
room until turned over to the FBI. Photographs of the "arrest wallet" and
contents were taken by the Dallas Police on November 23rd and given to
the FBI and Secret Service. The wallet found at the Tippit
murder scene turned up in Captain Fritz's desk drawer where it remained
until November 27th.

On November 25th, Oswald's possessions were returned from Washington
to be inventoried and photographed. The FBI inventory listed two wallets --- items #114 and #382 --- yet neither was "Oswald's arrest wallet" or
the "wallet from Tippit murder scene". These inventory sheets showed the
wallets coming from Ruth Paine's house. But neither wallet was
initialed by Dallas Police. Neither wallet was listed on the Dallas Police
handwritten inventory completed at Ruth Paine's house.
Neither wallet was listed on the Dallas Police typed inventory --- which
became Warren Commission exhibits. Neither wallet was
photographed among Oswald's possessions on the floor of the Dallas Police
station. Yet two wallets were listed on the FBI inventory. Where did they
come from? Were they on the Dallas Police evidence film?

"To answer that question, I looked at the two rolls of film returned to the
Dallas Police by the FBI," Armstrong said. "Item #114 was
listed as 'brown billfold with Marine group photograph.' But
negative #114 showed only the Marine group photo...

"Item #382 was listed on the FBI inventory as 'red billfold and
one scrap of white paper with Russian script'. But negative #382 showed only the paper with Russian script." When a photograph was made from this negative the red billfold, allegedly from Ruth Paine's house, disappeared.

"Both negatives were altered between the time the Dallas police turned
over their original undeveloped film to the FBI and the FBI returned copies
of that film to the police. Why cause the wallets in the original film to
disappear? Because the original photos taken by the Dallas Police were
probably photographs of the 'arrest wallet' and the 'Tippit murder scene
wallet' --- two wallets which contained identification for Oswald and Hidell
which would have been unexplainable.

"To find out what happened to 'Oswald's arrest wallet' and the 'Tippit
murder scene wallet' we must again look at the Dallas Police film. The
2nd roll of film begins in the middle of negative #361 and
ends in the middle of negative #451. All of the negative
images after #451, with one exception, were ruined. The one exception is
the negative image of a wallet. When the negative image is
developed into a photograph you can see that it is 'Oswald's arrest wallet...'"

With the "Oswald arrest wallet" in Washington, the "Tippit murder scene
wallet" remained in Captain Fritz's desk drawer. On November 27th, James
Hosty picked up the "Tippit murdar scene wallet" from Fritz and gave Fritz
a signed receipt. Hosty then took that wallet and other items
obtained from Fritz to the Dallas FBI office. According to Hosty, these
items were neither photogaphed nor inventoried. They were placed in a
box and flown to Washington by Warren DeBreuys. Two days later the
Dallas Police notified the FBl they had failed to photograph the wallet and
contents and wanted photos. The FBI ignored this request
and never photographed the "Tippit murder scene wallet". The only known
photos of this wallet are from the WFAA newsreel film.

When the FBI finished altering Oswald's possessions, Hoover sent a
March, 1964 memo stating, "the Bureau has re-photographed all of the
material in possession of the Bureau and will send a complete set of these
photographs to you by separate mail." Included among the hundreds of new
FBI photographs were items #114 and #382.
These two wallets were substituted for "Oswalds arrest wallet" and the
"Tippit murder scene wallet."

There were also newly created FBI photographs of w-2 forms, each
initialed by FBI lab technician Robert Frazier as well as the newly created
photograph of the Minox light meter. These FBI photographs were received
by the Dallas Police in March, 1964. To complete the charade, Hoover sent a
new inventory list. Hoover explained, "The inventory list
submitted by your office November 26, has been superseded by the list
furnished to your office by the FBI Laboratory dated February 1, 1964. The
list submitted by your office is incomplete and is not completely
accurate." Hoover attempted to blame the Dallas Police and his own Dallas
field office for producing an "incomplete and innaccurate" inventory. The
list Hoover called incomplete and inaccurate is Warren Commission
exhibit #2003.

"One final thought on the physical evidence. The w-2 forms, the Minox
camera, and the wallets are a few examples of evidence alteration by the
FBI. These items were allegedly found at Ruth Paine's. Nearly all of the
questionable items of evidence, including the backyard photos, the Mexico
City bus ticket, the Imperial Reflex camera, the two Klein Sporting Goods
coupons, the Minox camera and other questionable "items of evidence"
came from the Paines'. If we had known in 1964 that over half of the
original Dallas Police film disappeared while at FBI headquarters, and that
Dallas Police film had been altered while in possession of the FBI, and
that original items of evidence were altered, then we would have
demanded to know why the FBI was tampering with evidence. If we had
known Oswald owned a Minox spy camera, and if we had known the police
found two wallets in Oak Cliff with Oswald and Hidell identification, then
we would have asked a lot more questions about the identity of Oswald."

* * *

"Next, I would like to discuss witness testimony," Armstrong continued. "The FBl's first priority was 'to set out the evidence showing that Oswald is
responsible for the shooting that killed the President.' On December 3rd, a UPI
release stated 'an exhaustive FBI report now nearly ready for the White
House will indicate that Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone and unaided
assassin of President Kennedy.' Hoover had leaked this information to
United Press hoping 'to blunt the drive for an independent investigation of
the assassination.' His efforts failed and the Warren Commission was
created.

"As Warren Commission members were assembled, the FBl's number three
official, William Sullivan, said 'Hoover did not like to see the
Warren Commission come into existence. He showed marked interest in
limiting the scope of it or circumventing the scope of it and taking any
action that might result in neutralizing it.' Hoover was concerned the
Warren Commission would take testimony from witnesses that conflicted
with the FBl's already completed report naming Oswald as the lone
assassin. Sullivan said, 'if there were documents that
possibly Hoover didn't want to come to the light of the public, then those
documents no longer exist, and the truth will never be known.' In that one
sentence, Sullivan told us how the FBI handled the investiagtion: if they
didn't want documents to come to the light of the public, then those
documents would disappear."

* * *

Now, consider some of the FBI documents that were not available to the public in 1964.

The FBI told us Jack Ruby was a night club owner, had some
organized crime connections, and shot Oswald out of sympathy for Mrs.
Kennedy. They did not tell us that Ruby ran guns to Cuba, knew and associated with the former President of Cuba, CIA connected gunrunners, Lee Oswald, and was an FBI contact.

The FBI told us Guy Banister ran a small private detective agency in New
Orleans. They didn't tell us that after the Cuban revolution many Cuban
refugees, intelligence operatives and soldier of fortune types knew and
were closely associated with Guy Banister.

The FBI told us that Oswald defected to Russia in 1959,
married a Russian girl, and returned to the US in June, 1962. They withheld all FBI interviews with people who had contact with Lee
Oswald in the United States during the same time.

There is no reference in the Warren Report to the Friends of
Democratic Cuba. The FBI certainly knew who they were ... several FBI and CIA agents were members.

The FBI told us that in 1961 Oswald married a Russian
girl and was making plans to return to the US. In 1964 these
FBI reports were not available to the public.

The FBI and Warren Commission concluded Ruby and Oswald
did not know each other. But at least eleven people could link the two --- most of them were interviewed by the FBI.

"These Ruby/Oswald sightings are significant," Armstrong said. "But the real significance of these sightings is that they occurred in the spring and summer of 1963 --- while Harvey and Marina were in New Orleans. Ruby's use of the nickame 'Ozzie' was the same nickname used by Marines for Oswald in Japan. Ruby gave us a clue to his knowledge of Oswald when he spoke out and corrected Henry Wade in the Dallas Police Station. Wade said Oswald belonged to the Free Cuba Committee and Ruby corrected him by saying 'That's Fair Play for Cuba Committee'. After Ruby shot Oswald, Ruby told his psychiatrist
he had been involved in a conspiracy to murder the President."

The FBI told us Oswald, in the summer of 1963, worked at
Reily Coffee, was fired, and handed out Fair Play for Cuba literature in
support of Castro. But the FBI didn't say that nearly
everyone with whom Oswald came in contact in 1963 in New Orleans was
connected with US intelligence.

In August, 1963, Oswald was photographed handing out Fair Play for Cuba
literature. Warren Commission Attorney Jenner asked Oswald's brother,
John Pic, "Do you recognize the young man handing out the leaflets?" Pic
replied, "No, sir, I would be unable to recognize him." Jenner replied, "As to
whether he was your brother?" Pic replied, "That is correct."

Everyone associated with the Fair Play for Cuba leaflet episode and Oswald's radio interview, Armstrong asserted, was connected to intelligence agencies. Everyone, including the TV cameraman who filmed it, one of the men helping pass out leaflets --- and Oswald. "Had we known this in 1963 we would have realized this was a staged event. The FBI knew but told no one. This staged event would be
shown on national television within hours of Oswald's arrest. It created
the impression that Oswald was communist, Iinked to Cuba, and provided
the motive for assassinating the President --- and the FBl knew better."

Evidence suggests that the people who planned the
assassination wanted to link Oswald with Cuba in order to justify an
invasion of Cuba. But the day after the assassination, President Johnson's
aide Cliff Carter called Dallas District Attorney Henry Wade and ordered
him not to allege a conspiracy. The FBI then suppressed most allegations linking Oswald to Cuba.

The FBI determined Oswald was in New Orleans until September 25,
and in Mexico City until October 3rd. But neither the FBI nor
the Warren Commission could explain the testimony of
witnesses who placed Oswald in Dallas and Irving when Oswald was
supposed to be in New Orleans, such as:

Cliff Shasteen, a barber and Irving City Counsel member, who said he cut
Oswald's hair every other week beginning in late summer.

Store owner Leonard Hutchinson, who said Oswald visited his market during August and September, 1963.

Dallas residents Silvia Odio and her sister Annie, who reported a September 27 visit from "Leon Oswald."

* * *

After Oswald returned to Dallas on October 3rd, his alleged
support of Castro and his interest in Cuba disappeared. The FBI and Warren
Commission told us Oswald lived in Oak Cliff and spent the weekends with
Marina at the Paine house in Irving. But the FBI had other reports:

On October 4th the FBI had a report of Oswald spending the night in Alice,
Texas --- some 400 miles south of Dallas --- with his wife and child.

On October 4th Marina and Ruth Paine said Oswald spent the evening and
night at the Paine house in Irving, Texas.

On October 5th Oswald visited radio station KOPY in Alice, Texas, filled
out an employment application and spoke with with Laymon Stewart and
Robert Janca.

In late October in Irving, Texas, Harry Spencer interviewed Lee Oswald for
a job at his Heating and Air Conditioning company in the middle of the
afternoon.

In early November, Oswald, accompanied by two women matching the
description of Marguerite and N:arina, attempted to cash a check in the
amount of $189 made payable to Harvey Oswald at Hutchinsons Grocery in
Irving. Marina denied this happened and Marguerite said she had not seen
her son in over a year.

On November 14, Ruby and Oswald visited the New Port Motel in Morgan
City, Louisiana. Corrine Villard, who had known Ruby since 1947, spoke
with him for a half an hour.

These witnesses reported their contacts with Oswald to the FBI. Most
interviews were suppressed because they conflicted with Oswald working
at the Book Depository or living in Oak Cliff.

* * *

"While Oswald worked at the Book Depository, from October 15
through November 22nd, without missing a day of work, someone was setting
him up," Armstrong said. Some of his examples:

three weeks before the assassination, Oswald was with
David Ferrie, Gene Davis, and three unidentified men in an
apartment above the Court of Two Sisters restaurant in New
Orleans. Gene Davis knew Oswald and was an FBI informant.

On October 31 an Oswald target practiced at the Sports Drome
Rifle Range.

Also on October 31, an Oswald applied for a job at the high rise Statler
Hilton Hotel in downtown Dallas.

On November 1, an Oswald purchased ammunition at Morgan's Gun
Shop.

On November 4, an Oswald visited a gun shop to havea scope mounted on a rifle.

A week before the assassination, an Oswald went to Downtown Lincoln Mercury and gave his name to a salesman, test drove a new car, and said he would soon have enough cash for a new car.

On November 14, Jack Ruby and Lee Oswald were at the New Port
Motel in Morgan City, La. Corrine Villard, who had known Ruby
since 1947 spoke with them for a half an hour.

"A rifle with a scope, ammunition, target practice, a tall building from
which to shoot the President, and soon enough cash to buy a new car.
Someone was setting up Oswald.

"The FBI and Warren Commission told us that Oswald continued to work at
the Book Depository in the day, preceeding the assassination" Armstrong continued. "But they didn't explain:

Lee Oswald, seen by five employees at the Dobbs House
Restaurant at 10:00 am on Wednesday, November 20th. Half an hour later
Ralph Yates picked up "Lee Harvey Oswald" hitchhiking on Beckley Street, and drove him to the Book Depository. He was carrying a 4 foot long package
wrapped in brown paper which he said contained curtain rods. The FBI
suppressed their interview and polygraph of Ralph Yates. They told us the
package used to carry the rifle, allegedly containing curtain rods, was
brought to the Book Depository by Oswald two days later in Wesley
Fraziers car.

The FBI said Oswald spent Thursday evening at the Paine house in Irving. But that same night, a man identified as Oswald knocked on an apartment door in Oak Cliff, asking for Jack Ruby. He was directed to the apartment next door.

The FBI said Oswald rode from Irving to Dallas with Wesley Frazier at 7:30 Friday morning. Oswald was seen by fellow employees in the building continuously until 12:15 pm.

That same day, "Lee Oswald" was at the Top 10
Record Store in Oak Cliff at 7:30 am. News reporter Earl Golz confirmed
this story in his interview with store owner Dub Stark. This story was
further confirmed by Top 10 Record store employee Louis Cortinas. This is
virtually the same time that "Harvey Oswald" was walking to Wesley
Frazier's house in Irving --- 13 miles away.

The FBI interviewed Fred Moore who said "Lee Oswald"
entered the Jiffy store on Industrial Blvd at 8:30 that Friday morning, and bought two beers --- while "Harvey Oswald" was working at the Book Depository. Oswald produced a Texas drivers license with the name of Lee Oswald for identification to store clerk Fred Moore. Oswald returned a half an hour later and bought another beer and two pieces of Peco Brittle.

The Warren Commision told us that Howard Brennan saw Oswald shoot the
President from the Book Depository. But they never explained the two men
on the 6th floor as described by Arnold Rowland, Carolyn Walther and Ruby
Henderson --- one wearing a white or light colored shirt holding a rifle, and
the other wearing a dark shirt or jacket.

The Warren Commission told us that after the assassination
Oswald walked out the front door of the TSBD, boarded a bus, and later a
cab for Oak Cliff. He was wearing a brown shirt. But they never explained
the man seen by Richard Randolph Carr on the 6th floor, who walk toward
Carr on Houston, got into a 1961 or 1962 light colored Nash Rambler
station wagon driven by a young black man and heading in the direction of
the TSBD. They chose not to believe Deputy Sheriff Roger Craig who saw
the Rambler station wagon stop in front of the Book Depository and a man,
who he later identified as Oswald, get into the car and leave in the
direction of Oak Cliff. The statements of Marvin Robinson and Roy Cooper,
who also saw the young man get into the station wagon, were suppressed.

The Warren Commission said Oswald left his rooming house
wearing a light colored jacket and brown shirt at 1:04 pm, walked east
past 10th & Patton, shot Officer Tippit at 1:15 pm and ran to the Texas
Theater.

But several witnesses place Oswald, wearing a brown shirt, in the Texas
Theater at 1:15 --- not at 10th & Patton. Theater concession operator Butch
Burroughs sold Oswald popcorn at 1:15. Dallas Evangelist Jack Davis said
Oswald was sitting next to him while the opening credits to the movie
were running -- -at 1:20 pm. Perhaps some of the twenty four theater patrons
would have remembered Oswald, but a list of their names and addressess,
taken by Dallas Police, disappeared.

The Warren Commission had one witness who said Oswa!d was walking
east on Patton, but five witnesses saw Oswald walking west on Patton.

The Warren Commission said the passenger side window on Tippit's car
was rolled up. But Jimmy Burt, Helen Markham and Jack Tatum saw Oswald
talking to Tippit through the "rolled down" window described by Detective
Paul Bentley when he arrived on the scene. A rolled down window would
allow Oswald to "reach in and hand something to Tippit" as described by
FBI Agent Bob Barrett. That something was probably Lee Oswald's
wallet, photographed by Ron Reiland, of WFAA-TV, as it was held by Sgt
Bud Owens and inspected by Officer Doughty. FBI Agent Bob Barrett spoke
to Dallas Police Captain Westbrook about the wallet and the Oswald/Hidell
identifications.

Jack Tatum saw Oswald shoot Tippit several times, but instead of
running off, Oswald walked to the front of the car and carefully,
deliberately, shot Tippit in the head.

Consider this: at 1:15 pm the Dallas Police did not yet have a suspect in the President's murder. Leaving a wallet, with Oswald and Hidell identification at the scene of the Tippit murder, guaranteed the police would search for Lee Harvey Oswald. If they had
not found Oswald at the Texas Theater, the police would have soon learned
that Oswald had left the Book Depository. Book Depository records showed
Oswald's address as 2515 W. 5th in Irving. A search of that address, Ruth
Paine's house, would produce order blanks from Kleins Sporting Goods.
Kleins records would show a rifle ordered by Alik Hidell of Dallas. Hidell
was the second set of identification found in the wallet at the Tippit
murder scene.

The Warren Commission said Oswald, wearing a dark shirt and
light colored jacket, left the Tippit murder scene.

But FBI reports of Smith, Tatum, Scoggins, Callaway and
Brock said Oswald was wearing a light colored shirt. Police dispatches at
1:22 pm and 1:33 pm said the suspect was wearing a white shirt --- not a
dark shirt. Domingo Benavides, who saw Tippit's killer as he was leaving,
remembered "his hairline kind of went down and square off instead of
tapering off" --- above the collar line. Oswald's hair was not squared off --- it tapered down well below his collar line.

The Warren Commission said Oswald discarded his jacket at the Texaco
station and ran to the Texas Theter.

But was it his jacket? All of Oswald's clothing was size small. This jacket
was size medium. This jacket had two laundry tags, yet the FBI could not
match either tag to any of several hundred commercial laundries which
they checked in the Dallas area.

The FBI and Warren Commission told us Oswald snuck into the Texas
Theater and took a seat on the lower level.

But when Texas Theater employee Julia Postal called the police she
reported Oswald was in the balcony. Dallas Police officers entered the
theater, ran to the balcony, and were questioning theater patrons as more
police entered the rear of the theater on the lower level. Captain
Westbrook and FBI Agent Bob Barrett, who had just arrived from the Tippit
murder scene, were among these officers. They knew the identity of their
suspect from identification found in the wallet left at the Tippit murder
scene. After a scuffle police arrested the man wearing the brown shirt.

The Warren Commission told us Oswald was taken out the front of the Theater, placed into a squad car, and driven to police headquarters.

No one told the public about Bernard Haire, who owned Bernie's Hobbie Shop
close to the Theater. He saw the Dallas Police take a white male,
approximately 25 years of age, dark hair, wearing a pullover shirt and
dark pants, out the rear of the theater, place him in a police car and drive
off.

The Warren Commission told us the police learned Oswald's identity while
en route to the police station after his arrest. Detective Paul Bentley
removed Oswald's wallet from his left rear pocket and found identification
for Lee Oswald and Alik Hidell.

But they did not tell us that a DPD officer identified
Oswald, by name, to Julia Postal as they took Oswald out the front of the
theater. This was before Oswald was placed in the police car and before
Officer Bentley removed Oswald's wallet from his left rear pocket. They
knew Oswald's name before they even entered the theater --- from
identification found in the wallet left at the Tippit murder scene.

The FBI and Warren Commission told us Oswald was at police
headquarters by 2:00 pm.
But the FBI didn't tell us that shortly after 2:00 pm Mr. TF White saw a
man he later identified as Lee Harvey Oswald sitting in a car, with the
engine running, behind a large billboard sign in the El Chico parking lot.
This was six blocks from the Texas Theater. As White approached the car,
the man sped off throwing gravel with his rear tires. The license plates,
whose number White wrote down, belonged a vehicle owned by Collins
Radio employee Carl Mather. Mather was the best friend of Dallas Police
officer JD Tippit. Mather, whom the Warren Commission did not know about, was granted immunity and interviewed by the HSCA. His interview remains classified.

The Warren Commssion told us that Oswald was arraigned
for murder at 1:00 am on November 23rd.

But the FBI did not tell us about Mary Lawrence, head waitress of the
Lucas B&B Restaurant, who had known Jack Ruby for eight years. She told the FBI she saw Oswald and Ruby together in the restaurant
shortly after 1:00 am., while Oswald was supposed to be sitting in the Dallas jail.

* * *

The FBI interviewed many people who placed Oswald in different places at
the same time. Nearly all of these interviews were suppressed. Dallas
Police Lt. Jack Revill told fellow officers that the FBI was suppressing a
lot of evidence; FBI officials commented on how unusual the investigation
was because no agent was allowed to pursue any kind of a lead to its
logical conclusion. But when Ruby shot Oswald, it became easier to
convince the public that Oswald was the lone assassin. Their efforts,
however, were not without problems.

Problems developed when reports of Oswald's driving surfaced in the
media. Many people knew Oswald could drive, but if Oswald's
driving was confirmed questions would be raised: did he drive to Mexico,
did he drive in south Texas, did he drive to Robert McKeown's near Houston,
did he and Marina drive to the Furniture Mart, did he drive Ruth Paine's car
to Shasteens Barber Shop and Hutchinsons grocery, did he drive the Comet
at the Lincoln Mercury dealership? If Oswald drove to all these places,
then he must have had a driver's license.

Did Oswald drive Jack Ruby's car? Perhaps Oswald and Ruby did know each
other. But how could Oswald and Ruby have been together in the summer of
1963, when Oswald was in New Orleans? If Oswald had a Texas drivers
license, what information could be found in his file in Austin?

All of these questions could be avoided if the public could be convinced
Oswald did not drive. The convincing testimony came from Robert Oswald,
Ruth and Michael Paine, and, most notably, Marina. Not only did Marina
insist that Oswald could not drive, she denied every situation that involved
Oswald driving a car in Irving when he was supposed to have been working
at the Book Depository. Marina had no choice ... she could either
deny Oswald drove, or she could explain whose
car she was riding in and who was driving her around Irving while Harvey
Oswald was working at the Book Depository.

When Department
of Public Safety employees tell you they saw and handled Oswald's drivers
license, it's hard to argue with them. It's hard to argue with their
supervisor, who said she knew from direct personal
experience that Oswald had a drivers license and that his license and file
were pulled at the request of a government agency the week following the
assassination.

For readers interested in learning whether or not
Marina was with Lee Oswald when he was driving, I urge you to read the
Warren Commission testimonies of Cliff Shasteen, Edith Whitworth,
Gurtrude Hunter, and other people who were in Irving in
1963 and saw Oswald drive. Decide for yourself whether to believe
employees and supervisors of the Texas Department of Public Safety and a
couple dozen witnesses ... or Marina.

Most researchers have heard of Marina's questionable testimony, but few
bother to check details or understand the extent of her contradictions.
Warren Commission attornies recognized the problem and studied her
testimony. A little known report stated
"Marina's testimony is so full of confusion and contradiction that without
cross-examination it reads like a nightmare". Warren Commission
Attorney Bert Griffin called her a liar. The HSCA compared
her Warren Commission, FBI and HSCA testimony. Their 29 page report
listed dozens of unexplained contradictions. They questioned where and
when Marina learned to speak English. She spoke English with US defector
Robert Webster in Leningrad, shortly before she moved to Minsk and met
Oswald, another US defector. Her English handwriting, written on the back
of these photographs prior to November, 1963, is very good.
Marina's cooperation with the government and her ability to supply
evidence at the most opportune times has been noticable and quite
obvious. Questions among CIA analyists prompted a series of
investigations into her background. I urge you to read them and their conclusions.

An example of Marina's questionable integrity and unexplained intentions
surfaced recently. Jeremy Gunn, of the Records Review Board, called
Marina and requested the release of Oswalds tax returns. Marina replied
"I have no problem releasing tax records and I will agree to
have them released to journalists who will publish them". Journalists? Is
she kidding? How can we possibly determine the legitamacy of records of
questionable origin casually submitted to journalists? Records Review
Board Chairman John Tunheim and Marina were together on the Oprah
Winfrey show. When Judge Tunheim asked Marina to release Oswald's tax
returns, Marina said they were not important and changed the subject.

What Tunheim and most researchers didn't know was that Marina had
already released the returns 20 years ago to the HSCA. But she didn't tell anyone, including Tunheim. Why? What was she hiding? Was she afraid the Review Board would get verifiable tax returns from the HSCA files?

In 1964 Marina applied for Social Security benefits. The Social Security
administration listed Oswald's lifetime earnings as $3306.85.
This amount, to the penny, are Oswald's 1962 and 1963 earnings. Carol Hewett, an attorney specializing in Social Security claims,
advised that Social Security death benefits are based upon lifetime
earnings. Oswald's 1955-1959 wages, excluding military pay, represent
33% of his reported lifetime earnings. These earnings were not included in
calculating his benefits. Why?

Researchers have tried, without success, to obtain Oswald's Social
Security records. His 1962 and 1963 records are available, but nothing
from the 1950's. In place of
Oswald's 1955-1958 earnings records, the Social Security Administration
sent the HSCA three pages from the Warren Commission report. The
Social Security administration denied even the HSCA access to Oswald's
1950's employment records.

On December 16, 1963 FBI Agent Louis Kelley listed Oswald's income. But Kelley had incomplete records from which to reconstruct Oswald's income. In his report, Kelley wrote that Oswald's income from three New Orleans employers, Pfisterers, JR Michaels and TuJagues, is unknown. Why would Oswald's income be unknown when the FBI supposedly
had these w-2 forms in its posession --- the ones that allegedly came from
Ruth Paine's garage? The ones that didn't have the initials of Dallas Police
Officers, were not listed on any Dallas Police inventory, and
were cut out of the original 5 rolls of Dallas Police film? The reason Agent
Kelley was not able to list Oswald's income from these companies was
because these forms were not yet available to him. These 1955 and 1956
w-2 forms have IRS Federal Tax ID numbers that not issued until January,
1964. These fake forms were created a month after they
were allegedly found at the Paine garage. They bear only the initials of FBI
lab technician Robert Frazier and were photogaphed by the FBI in February,
1964. When made available, the FBI was then able to fabricate Oswald's
income and the years of his employment during the 1950's. The purpose of
altering these w-2 forms and suppressing the 1950's social security
records is simple. Palmer McBride, his co-workers and company owners
said Oswald worked at the Pfisterer Dental Lab in New Orleans in 1958.
The Warren Commission said Oswald was in Japan at this time in the
Marines. To avoid explaining how Oswald could be in two places at once,
his social security records were suppressed, and 1956 w-2 forms were
created to give the appearance Oswald worked at Pfisterers before he
entered the Marines. If you want to know where one of the Oswalds was in
1958 ask the people who should know --- Palmer McBride, who was with him every day for 9 months; his friend William Wullf; or current Pfisterer President Linda Faircloth.

I have shown you how the FBI manipulated evidence, suppressed and changed
witness testimony, and how Marina's chamelon-like testimony is, in the
words of the Warren Commission "so full of confusion and contradiction it
reads like a nightmare." But almost nothing in this article has anything to do with the murder of President Kennedy. The Minox camera, w-2 forms, multiple wallets, drivers license, tax
returns, Stripling Junior High records --- these have nothing to do with the
the murder of the President. But they have everything to do with the
identity of Oswald ...because if Oswald's dual identity was discovered,
it would link the ingelligence agencies --- those who create dual identities --- directly with the assassination.

In 1961 the CIA obtained photos of Oswald, the defector, in Minsk from
tourists. But was he a defector? CIA employee Donald Deneslya read reports of a CIA agent who had worked at a radio factory in Minsk and returned to the US with a Russian wife and child.

Dallas Police Captain Fritz said "you didn't have to sit there very long
and listen to them talk to Oswald to realize that his guy had been
trained in interrogation. By that I mean resisting interrogation."

The afternoon of the assassination, a Miami based reporter provided
Dallas Seth Kantor with detailed biographical information on
Oswald. before Oswald's name was broadcast on radio or TV. The Miami reporter, Hal Hendrix, who supplied this information, was a CIA "media friend"
who acted as a conduit for CIA leaks at the time of the Kennedy
assassination.

CIA Agent Frank Sturgis supplied information to the press again and
again trying to tie Oswald to Cuba.

CIA officer David Phillips provided the Warren Commission with
information that Oswald was at the Russian and Cuban embassies in
Mexico City, then later admitted that the information he had
provided was false.

Former CIA agent Joseph Newbrough said he "believed Oswald was an
agent for the CIA and acting under orders".

CIA paymaster James Wilcott said he had furnished money
for the Oswald project --- code named RX ZIM. He said it was common
knowledge among his group that Oswald was an agent of the CIA.

CIA Agent John Garrett Underhill told friends, just before he died,
"Oswald is a patsy. They set him up. They've killed the President. I've
been listening and hearing things. I couldn't believe they'd get away
with it, but they did".

CIA Agent Donald Norton said "Oswald was with the CIA, and if he did it
then you better believe the whole CIA was involved."

CIA Agent William Gaudet said "the man who probably
knows as much as anybody on all of this ...is ... I still think
is Howard Hunt" --- ClA Agent and Watergate burglar E. Howard
Hunt.

As researchers began to uncover indications of CIA involvement in the
assassination, the CIA sent out a memo offering
suggestions to media assets on how to block and impede investigation of
the Kennedy assassination by researchers.

Despite media assaults on critics, and despite diehard Warren Commission
supporters, we continue to gather information in bits and pieces. We piece
together documents like we would piece together a broken vase. One piece
of a broken vase does not make a vase. Neither does a second or third
peice. But at some point, when enough pieces are put together, you
recognize the assembled pieces as a "vase". As more and more pieces of
the Kennedy assassination are pieced together we are able to recognize
the undeniable involvement of our intelligence agencies while the well
worn picture of Oswald "the lone assassin" fades.

Supporters of the Warren Commission cast their vote in 1964. As more and
more information becomes available, the Warren Report is being exposed
for the fraud that it is. For those people who cannot or do not want to
accept that the Warren Commissions version of "Lee Harvey Oswald" was
in realty two different people I would like you to consider this:

Proving the existance of two Oswalds is not subject to the rules of
criminal procedure whereby all 12 jurors must agree. Proving the
existance of two Oswalds is not subject to the rules of civil procedure
whereby only the majority of jurors must agree. In reality, proving the
existance of two Oswalds requires only one instance of Oswald being in
two places at the same time --- only one. If a single witness of the dozens who are on the record is correct, then the existence of two Oswalds --- Harvey and Lee --- is undeniable. We must then look to the agency who created them for the answers to President Kennedy's murder.